Category Archives: Canadian Press

Krista DuChene was only 12 kilometres into the 2013 world championship marathon in Moscow, when her legs gave way. One of the country’s most finely tuned runners was succumbing to heat exhaustio...

NEW YORK - The Pulitzer Prize and numerous other awards didn’t prepare Annie Proulx for her latest honour: a National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement. “I was astonished when firs...

LOS ANGELES - A 12-year-old singing ventriloquist is getting a $1 million prize and her own Las Vegas show after taking the “America’s Got Talent” crown on the season 12 finale of th...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory - After more than two decades of failures, Palestinians are increasingly questioning their leaders’ strategy of reaching statehood through negotiations with Israe...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - When Rohingya Muslims fled persecution and slaughter in Myanmar in past decades, tens of thousands found refuge in Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s holiest sites. This...

WASHINGTON - In the middle of Donald Trump’s presidential run, then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort said he was willing to provide “private briefings” about the campaign to a Russian...

WASHINGTON - The Securities and Exchange Commission waited until Wednesday to disclose a hack of its corporate filing system that occurred last year. The disclosure raises questions about the agency&#...

TAMPA, Fla. - A 4-year-old Florida girl has died after accidentally pulling the trigger of a gun when she reached into her grandmother’s purse for candy. Yanelly “Nelly” Zoller died ...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a surprise guest speaker Wednesday evening during services for the Jewish new year in Washington, telling worshippers she believes being Jewish helped her...

MEXICO CITY - On rubber mats spread across a Mexico City recreation centre, the Montero family cuddles under donated wool blankets, their first new possessions after abandoning their apartment followi...